Hélène Chanel

{{short description|French actress}}

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| name = Hélène Chanel

| image = Helene Chanel nel sole.png

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| caption = Hélène Chanel in Nel sole (1967)

| birth_name = Hélène Stoliaroff

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1941|06|12}}

| birth_place = Deauville, France

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| years_active = 1959–1977

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Hélène Chanel (born Hélène Stoliaroff; 12 June 1941 in Deauville, Calvados, France) is a French actress of Russian heritage. She was active in the 1960s in a variety of European international co-productions of Sword and sandal, Eurospy and Spaghetti Westerns. She was credited with a variety of names such as Hélène Chancel, Helen Chanel, Sheryll Morgan, Helen Stoliaroff and Hélène Stoliaroff.

Biography

A former model, Helene entered films in 1959 in the film Les dragueurs opposite Ugo Tognazzi. Her surname was to have been changed to "Chancel", but an Italian publicity agent misspelled it to "Chanel".{{cite book|pages=91–92|last1=Lisanti|first1=Tom|last2=Paul|first2=Louis|title=Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973|publisher=McFarland|year=2002}}

Partial filmography

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